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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE- CHARLES .T. MEYER AND VICTOR E. MEYER, OF JERSEY CITY, N. J.

FLOOR-COVERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,122, dated January 10, 1882.

Application filed June 21, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES T. MEYER and VICTOR E. MEYER, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey,

have invented a new and Improved Floor-(Jovering, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved floor covering which is more durable and substantial and less apt to crack to than the tloor coverings in use heretofore.

The invention consists in a floor-covering made of a fabric covered with a coating or mixture of ground wood or other vegetable fiber, either plain or dyed, with mineral fiber 1 and a binding material, such as copal or other varnish. i

In the accompanying drawing crosssectional elevations of specimens of our improved floor-coverin g are ,shown.

2 In carrying out our invention we. prepare a mixture of ground wood or other vegetable fiber, which may be plain or dyed and colored infsome suitable manner, with some mineral fiber and a binding material, such as copal or 2 other varnish, to which a small proportion of {rubber solution is added. The proportions are about as follows: ground wood or other vegetable fiber, fifty parts, in weight mineral fiber, two hundred parts, iii/weight; varnish bind o ing material, forty gallons; but we do not limit ourselves to these proportions, but,m ay vary them as circumstances may require. The ground wood or other vegetable fiber is used plain, or is dyed by means of aniline colors or dyewoods or other colors, or colored in any other suitable manner, beforebein g mixed with 'the varnish. The canvas A or other fabric is first sized in the ordinary manner, and a layer,

B, or several layers, B, of the above-described 40 compound are spread on the canvas, and the lower surface of the canvas'is painted with oilpaint or a more diluted compound of the above ingredients. The coating may be of greater or less thickuess, according to the thickness of the canvas, or as the circumstances may require.

The mixture can be spread with a brush or trowel, by machinery, or in any other suitable ters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a floor covering made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of a layer of canvas or another base, on which a layer or layers of a mixture of ground wood or other vegetable fiber, either plain or dyed or colored, mineral fiber, and a binding material, such as copal or other varnish, are spread, as set forth.

- 2. A compound for spreading on canvas for floor-coverings, consisting of a mixture of ground wood, either plain or dyed or colored, with copal or other varnish, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the pur-- pose set forth.

CHAS. T. MEYER. VICTOR E. MEYER. Witnesses:

Osoxa F. GUNZ, C. SEDGWICK. 

